Grainger-Hawkins County TN Archives Military Records.....Grantham, Richard
Revwar - Pension
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RICHARD GRANTHAM
Richard Grantham applied for revolutionary pension while living in Grainger
County, Aug. 21, 1832. He was born March 16, 1754 and was the son of John and
Ann Grantham. He enlisted while living in Dobbs County, N. C. in Col. Charles
Coatsworthy Pinckney's 1st South Carolina Regiment. After the Revolution he
moved to Hawkins County, N. C., now Tennessee and subsequently lived in Grainger
County. He died in Grainger County, June 22, 1846. His widow. Frances Amis
Grantham, applied for pension Oct. 14, 1846. Her brother was Lincoln Amis. She
says they were married in Hawkins County, by Thomas Murrell, a minister, April
14, 1785. Frances Amis, daughter of Thomas and Alice Amis, was born April 16,
1765. Enclosed in her application is the original Bible page with the foregoing
birth dates and the following information. Children: Penelopy, born 1786; Mary,
born 1788, died 1820, married George Saunders, 1805; Ann, born 1789, died 1814,
married Hezekiah Robertson, 1807; Amis (a son), born 1791, married Margaret
Williams, 1815; Tabitha, born 1793, married Hezekiah Robertson (as his second
wife) 1816; Rachel, born 1795, married James Dobson, 1817; Rhoda, born 1797,
married James Moore 1817; Lincoln, born 1798; John Thomas, born 1800, married
Margaret Littleton, 1824; James, born 1804; Alice Gale, born 1803, married
Hughes W. Taylor, 1823.
Note:-The wife of Thomas Amis was Alice Gale.
Additional Comments:
From:
SOME TENNESSEE HEROES
OF THE
REVOLUTION
Compiled From Pension Statements
PAMPHLET NO. I
by Zella Armstrong
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